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[John Devereux <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> W odpowiedzi na wiadomość z dnia 17.08.2015, 22:33, od timofonic timofonic:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I'm not a developer at all, but I got curious about this.
>>
>> KiCad is 500KLOC and 80% of it is about GUI, right? Would rewriting
>> dialog code
>> by hand require to change a lot of code too? Would it reduce LOC?
>>
>> I see Libreoffice has some kind of similar issue, but the situation is even
>> worse. It seems to have 864,463 LOC and features their own toolkit
>> named VCL (20
>> years old and it seems to be quite outdated by today's standards too). They
>> would prefer to migrate to something like Qt or Gtk, but the code is
>> very rooted
>> in the codebase and the required rewrite isn't an easy task to do at all.
>>
>> Other projects such as QUCS already use Qt.
> wx is closer to gtk than to qt (easier to convert) and qt is for
> comercial tasks non-free… Read the licence.

You read the license... :)

(Its's LGPL basically)

http://www.qt.io/faq/



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John Devereux